Pix liquida
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
LIQUIDA
A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods.
Authorities.
1 , H. and J. Slight, Lancet, 1832-3 (2), p. 598, a man, aged thirty-two years, drank about a gill of the oil of tar, recovery; 2 , Dr. Buckley, Practitioner (Brown-sequard's Archives of Sci. and Pract. Med., No. 2, 1873), effects which sometimes follow local application in skin diseases.
- Fulness and pain in the head, 2.
- Pain in the stomach, 2.
- Constant vomiting (after seven hours and a half), 1.
- Vomiting of a blackish fluid, 2.
- Excessive pains in bowels and loins (after seven hours and a half), 1.
- Ardor urinæ (second day), 1.
- Dark-colored urine, 2.
- Dark-colored fecal evacuations, 2.
- Great exhaustion (after seven hours and a half), 1.
- It may produce an acute eczema, some skins not tolerating the substance at all; while in others an acne is developed from closure and irritation of the sebaceous orifices, 2.
- Occasionally high fever, 2.